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For all of you electric car owners, how is the charge in your batteries holding up in this cold weather?

Are you still getting the same distance out of a charge or are your batteries draining faster due to the cold weather?
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LadyGrace · 70-79
I believe this is why many Americans are shunning buying electric cars. There's not enough electric posts around to keep them charged. Not even at apartment buildings yet. When they start installing those, then I think their sales will boom. Nobody wants to run out of electricity for their car in the middle of a trip to anywhere!
LadyGrace · 70-79
@Musicman well I'm sure, given your location. Haha my sister is always teasing me and bragging deliberately because it's always warm where she's at in Arizona year-round and we just laugh. I always say rub it in, rub it in! lol
LadyGrace · 70-79
@Musicman I've done that before. That's miserable haha
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
@LadyGrace I might do that to our friends back in Virginia in the winter. 😁
scorpiolovedeep · 51-55, M
What cold weather ? 😁

We have a EV at home.

Usually charge it during day light hours....through solar panels.

I only paid one service year this year, that's it.
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
It depends both on how cold it is and how long the journey is. If I drive multiple short trips at -15 C then the range can be cut by 30% or more because the battery never has time to warm to the optimum temperature. But if I drive at constant speed on the motorway for, say, 200 km then the reduction in range is much less because the battery is at optimum temperature for most of the way.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Did you get snow today? If so how much?
@Musicman We all can thank H.W. Bush for deregulating utilities, also don't forget he's the prez that said welcome to the new world order in an oval office speech 9/11/1991
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
@NativePortlander1970 Neither Bush was good for the country. 😡
@Musicman W., Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Powell, should all be charged with war crimes over Iraq, the Downing Street Memos proved 9/11 was going to happen, a Munneapolis FBI agent discovered 20 Saudi nationals were taking commercial flight lessons, but were skipping take off and landing classes, she wrote the infamous August 6th memo that was ignored.
DDaverde · 61-69, M
Yes battery’s slow down in very cold weather!
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
Does anyone know how much running the heater in an ev cuts mileage?
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Virgo79 I used to fairly often drive over the mountains between Oslo and Trondheim in the winter at -20 C. The range didn't seem to be noticeably affected by having the heater on; I drove in shirtsleeves and barefoot.
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
@ninalanyon must just be a fan blowing heat off the electric parts
ninalanyon · 61-69, T
@Virgo79 The heater in my car is a resistive heater connected to the high voltage battery. The other electric parts, battery and motors, are all liquid cooled so the air conditioning heat pump is also involved to some degree I think to cool the battery and motors, I presume it can dump some of that heat in the cabin but I'm not sure of that. Newer cars use an actual air source heat pump as well I think.
DDaverde · 61-69, M
I Do not want An electric car !!
Ever!! Just a big scam !!

 
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